> *’• Z ** * »*^|H|*ír> ♦w • « • » * ? 1 V olum n XXII, Num ber 4 “The E yes and Ears o f th e C ojn m u n ity” _ f4 e o sP a P e r M rs- . ... S c h ‘-‘e n Fí i t v o f O re g o n ^ E " u g ' n e n V e , 97403 Pol <•♦-•’♦ *r liinan 22, 1992 L ID ’ 0*” 0" ® je ^ n rtían it ODbiertTcr Jefferson Hosts Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Above, Mattie Ann Col lier Spears sang at the state’s largest celebra tion honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Left, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929. He was killed by an assassin on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. On M onday, January 20, Jeffer son High School hosted the state’s largest celebration to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The seventh annual “ Keep Living the D ream ” celebration offered continuous en tertainment and commentary from noon to 6 p.m. The school auditorium which holds 1,500 people was continually filled throughout the afternoon. The special tribute featured a combination of drama, speeches and song provided by local leaders, musical talent, and gospel choirs from metropolitan Port land and a guest appearance from Total Experience Choir from Seattle. The entire concert and program was broad cast live on KBOO (90.7 FM) and on Paragon Cable Television. The seventh annual ‘Keep Living the Dream celebration offered continuous entertainment and commentary Portland Parks And Recreation Celebrates Improvements At King School Park Playground King School park playground has some new equipment and the park has new lighting, benches, and trees - all thanks to funds generated from the Parks Improvement Levy approved by voters in 1989. On Thursday, January 23, one hundred second and third graders from Martin Luther King Elementary School will help Commissioner Mike L ind berg officially cut the ribbon and put a stamp of approval on the com pleted project. T h u rsd a y , J a n u a ry 23 11:15 AM K ing School P a rk - N E 6th and H um bolt Joining Com m issioner Lindberg and the children in the celebration will be Portland Parks and Recreation Di rector Charles Jordan, King School Principal Laverne Davis, and Fred S tew art- Chairman o f the King Im provement Association. Levy improvements to the park are not limited to above ground! This spring, the ballfield will be renovated and irrigation improvements will be made to the entire park. According to Commissioner Lindberg, “ Our city’s neighborhood parks and playgrounds are the backbone of ourparksystem . It is essential that we continue to put re sources into our inner-city parks to as sure that all our children have safe, fun and accessible places to play.” to announce a massive recall o f defec tive engines. However, the company was found to lead the nation when two o f its lines were compared with others, “ The most frequently stolen cars in A m erica in the past five years are the Chevrolet Camaros and the Olds C ut lass.” It is more than shameful when you have the President o f a great nation touring the world on a marketing junket to yesterday’s “ third w orld” nations, begging for “ QUOTAS AND SETA- SIDES.” Rather ironic, don’t you think? A growing fallout from the ill-conceived trip is producing a sobering trauma in the American public. From the Japa nese press and parliam ent we have it that “ American workers are lazy,over paid, and too illiterate to follow written directions or schem atics.” The most embarrassing feature o f this is that it sounds like a direct quote from an American industry roundtable critiqu ing our EDUCATION SYSTEM. There arc many o f us of the other- than-majority class of disadvantaged citi zens (race, gender) who have been acri moniously accused of seeking an unfair position in society by demanding the Bush-type “ Quotas and Setasides.” What happened to that old adage “ w hat’s good for the goose is good for the gan der” ? I thought that Anna Quindlen (N.Y. Times) dealt rather well with this m atter in her column last week, and in good time too. As the layoffs and plant closures escalated, there typically will be increasing com petition, confronta tion, stress and overt racism. She had the following comments for those ‘ ‘advantaged’ ’ who now believe blacks A 21 -story office building with an adjacent parking garage has been pro posed near Lloyd Center by S-PAC, a joint venture partnership of Pacific Power and the Ralph Schlesinger Company. The partnership will own the pro posed building, located at 600 N.E. Holladay Street. GBD Architects has been selected as the building arthitect, and Hoffman Construction as the gen eral contractor for construction. Pacific Development, Inc., a Paci- fiCorp subsidiary, has agreed to sell the site for the new building, and re tains substantial other holdings in the Lloyd District. Pacific Development and Schlesinger were partners in the new state office building, currently in the final stages o f construction, nearby at 800 N.E. Oregon S t The name o f the new project is the “ 600 Holladay Building” . Pacific Power and some Pacific- Corp staff functions will be the pri mary tenants o f the building, which represents approximately 60 percent of the total office space. Pacific Power and Utah Power arc electric utility di visions o f PacifiCorp. Together they serve 1.2 million customers in seven W estern states. No other leases are signed at this time, though discussions are under way with interested groups such as the law firm of Stoel Rives Boley Jones & Grey. The Ralph Schlesinger Co. will manage and operate the building on behalf o f the joint venture. Plans call fora480,000-squar-foot office building with an adjacent eight floor above grade parking garage. In addition to providing parking for the office building, the parking structure is expected to serve the planned Oregon arena and replace surface park ing being removed as the Lloyd District devel ops. 4 There will also be service/retail space on the main levels of the building and parking garage, a daycare facility and conference rooms and teleconfer encing facilities for building tenants. Schematic building plans go be fore the City of Portland, Bureau of Planning in January as part of the De sign Review process. Actual construc tion is scheduled to begin in mid- 1992, with occupancey in mid to late 1994. Pacific Power curently leases the Public Service Building on S.W. Sixth and Salmon streets in Portland. It was constructed in 1927. Several firms have already expressed interest in the build ing and plans for its redevelopment are in progress. Community Care Needs Our Help And Support MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. by Michael Lindsey Our own Clara Peoples has for many years gone the last mile for the community. She has clothed, housed and fed residents for over 20 years, never asking for anything in return, but the ability and resources to care. Now she needs help. In these recessionary times where unemploy ment is rampant and individuals and families are hurting, the need is greater than ever before. And Community Care needs our help. Clara Peoples cannot do it alone. Please help,: she has done her part, it is time we do ours. Please send your generous donations to Community Care, c/o Bethel AME Church, 5828 NE 8th, Portland, OR, 97211. 0 :1 National PTA Offers Parents Advice To Help Their Children’s Reading Skill Blazers as Football Players? Page 7 Page 6 Page 5 Page 2 thieves to the tune of BILLIONS OF D O LLA RS~A nd this while other p a triots spun out o f their lucrative gov ernment jobs to become successful lob byists and public relations experts in representing Japanese and other Asian manufacturers. How do you think these firms got so solidly entrenched here in the first place? (Add Taiwan, Hong Kong, S ingapore,etc.). Greed and short term profit have run amuck and now the piper demands his price. Next week this series will develop an approach that specifically addresses the minority situation in all of this. We will look at both the immediate and longterm effects of America’s economic fiascos upon black job seekers and families. We are not seeking to “ cry havoc,” but to define the problem ac curately, and to develop solutions. Special by Bill Barber by McKinley Burt EDITORIAL Now that it has been accepted in the press, Congress and the think tanks that the ill-fated trip accomplished noth ing (include union headquarters), what will be the adm inistration’s next move in a critical and dangerous election year. Need we be on guard against some headline-grabbing MILITARY ADVENTURE? Will CUBA be at tacked? Is an American-backed coup in IRAQ imminent? Will the accused ter rorists in LIBYA be forcibly extra dited? Certainly, there is a precedent for such escapades since failing gov ernments or administrations have adopted such attention-diverting ploys since time inmemorial. It is obvoius that for a decade the nation has been raped and ravaged by gangs of junk bond hucksters, savings & loan executives and other high-level I Isaiah’s Song Of The Vineyard: Are Those Wild Grapes I See? Heroes And Heroines Sung And Unsung and women have it made. “ Nevermind that you can walk through the offices of almost any big company and see a sea o f white faces.” (Try the offices or shops along Martin Luther King Blvd.). “ Never mind that in the good old days preferential treat ment was routinely given to brothers and sons of workers in certain lines of work. Perceptions of programs to edu cate and hire more black citizens as a partial antidote to decades of system atic exclusion have been inflated to enormous proportions in the public m ind.” (“ Partial” is the right word. For years I have pointed out how Euro pean immigrants have always been given job and craft preference for 1 5 0 y e a rs- and that these laws and custom s arc still in practice-D ept. of Labor cites “ a shortage o f certain skills” ) Sports .Religion 250 New Lloyd District Office Building Announced No Jobs And No Shame, Part I BY PROFESSOR MCKINLEY BURT That highly touted economic task force o f the Bush Administration has returned from Japan and the signals are mixed; “ Disappointing” or “ A com plete failure.” The President’s excur sion under a table failed to define a new relationship between the two super powers; but Japan’s prime minister has stated that America is a “ subcontrac tor and supplier of raw m aterials.” The representatives of the Big Three automakers fumed and fussed with dec larations o f American resurgence in manufacturing skills and quality con trols. 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